Body-truss



0. CASE.

BODY TRUSS.

Patented Mar. 3, 1.885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ORVILLE CASE, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

BODY-TRUSS.

EPECIE'ICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 313,057, dated March 3, 1885.

Application filed July 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ORVILLE CASE, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Body-Trusses, of which the following is a'description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 is a perspective front View of my improved truss. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the pad. Fig. 3 is a back View of the pad. Fig. 4 is a view in vertical cross-section of the pad on plane denoted by line as x of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a View in cross-section of the clasp on line y y of Fig. 1.

The letter a denotes the clamp, which embraces the body of the wearer. It is made curved or convexed on the inner side, so as to present as little contact-surface with the body as is practicable, and so as to have that brace impress itself, so far as it does touch the body at all, into the flesh, and thereby hold itself well in place. This brace is made of elastic or spring steel covered with hard rubber.

The letter 1) denotes the pad, preferably of hard rubber. It is like many pads in having a parti-spherical part, 0, intended for press' ing directly upon the spot where the protrusionoccurs.

A new and improved feature in my truss consists inthe peculiar form of the pad, which is longer in a vertical plane than the width, and is concave on the face presented for contact with the body, with either a curved or angular face, as shown in section in Fig. 4:.

The upper part of the pad bears, directly op-.

posite the point where the pad is secured to the body-strap, an inward-projecting button, 0, and this method of construction causes the lower end of the pad to press directly and 40 firmly inward.

WVhile the removable button a has for its specific office the closing of the orifice, the lower end of the pad has been found in practice to greatly aid in holding the pad in a proper position, and by its pressure upon the abdomen below the orifice more securely retain the bowels within the natural cavity of the abdomen than has been accomplished in prior devices. This pad has preferably upon the side opposite the button a, near the upper end of the pad, a spring terminating in a loop, through which loop the strap (1, fast to the clamp, is passed to hold the pad. The strap (1 and buckle cl serve to hold the clamp upon the person.

The letter f denotes an auxiliary strap fastened to the clamp, and so arranged that when the truss is on the person this strapfwill extend from the persons back downward between the legs and upward to fasten into the buckle f. The button or removable part c is attached to the pad by means of a screw, 2', so that it may be readily removed and replaced by others of different sizes and shapes.

Two pads may be used on the same brace, side by side, with considerable advantage, when necessary.

I claim as my improvement- In a body-truss, in combination, a clamp, a, bearing a strap, d, and a pad, I), with means near its upper end for attachment to the strap, a removable button, 0, attached to the inner side of the pad, the latter having a downward and inward projecting portion below the point of attachment of the button, all substantially as described.

ORVILLE CASE.

\Vitnesses:

WM. EDGAR SIMoNDs, SARA J. SIMoNDs. 

